These are scans from a book I got the other day, the title translates (very roughly) as "unit 12, 312 regiment history, 1945-1949". Unfortunately, the whole thing is in Vietnamese, but with a Viet dictionary you can get some idea of what's going on. I left the Vietnamese captions in the hope someone can translate better than I. If anyone wants I can take a stab at translating some of the captions, but I'll be out of the country for most of August and I may take a while to get around to it.
I noticed that there's not a lot of combat gear, but they do give the impression that they are trying to look "military".